Rudy Bruner Award Collection

Title

Pocket Therapeutics and Dose Book, 1886

Description

Pocket Therapeutics and Dose Book by Morse Stewart, Jr., 1886.

Subject

Stewart, Morse Jr.

Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Creator

Stewart, Morse Jr.

Publisher

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives

Date

1886

Contributor

Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948

Format

application/pdf

Language

en-US

Type

Text

Identifier

RG9-12-1043_1_7_004

Date Created

2022-02-08

Is Part Of

Frances Proctor Ames Papers, 1882-1948 (RG 9/12/1043)

LIB-UA041

Extent

15.1x21.9cm

2 pages

Transcription

POCKET THERAPEUTICS AND DOSE BOOK.By MORSE STEWART, Jr., B.A., M.D.THIRD EDITIONCarefully Revised and containing all of the most recent of the Therapeutical Agents introduced up to the present time.This Dose Book gives Hundreds of Medicines and Doses not found in any one work on Therapeutics or Materia Medica.Over 6,500 copies sold within two years, it being now used in every Medical College in the United States and Canada.PRICEHandsomely bound in Cloth, $1.00" " Morocco, 1.50Can be readily carried in the vest pocket.A most useful and reliable REFERENCE AND EMERGENCY BOOK, REMEMBRANCER, and POCKET COMPANION, equally serviceable to the practicing physician or pharmacist, as well as to the student in the lecture room; from the fact that it furnishes a digest of a vast variety of practical and valuable knowledge, which is usually learned in many ways, and hence not systematized and arranged for ready and convenient reference.Endorsed and Recommended by the following Professors of Materia Medica and Therapeutics"I have examined the 'Pocket Therapeutics and Dose Book' carefully, and find it replete with valuable and practical information, to which the student can with confidence refer."I shall take pleasure in recommending this little book to my medical class next winter."PROF. J. S. B. ALLEVNE,Of St. Louis Medical College."It is concise, well arranged and convenient little work, one which the student and young practitioner will find of frequent service."I shall recommend it to my students"PROF. E. V. STODDARD,Of Medical Dep't of University of Buffalo."It is very complete and answers the purposes for which it is intended admirably. I will take pleasure in speaking of it to my class, and will recommend it as the best of its kind."PROF. J. A. MCCORKLE,Of Long Island Hospital Medical College."It is full, condensed, portable and very convenient and useful in every way for the purposes intended."I shall recommend it to my classes."PROF F. PEYRE PORCHER,Of Medical College of State of South Carolina."To the student in the lecture room it is an invaluable companion, and to the veteran in practice it affords many refreshing hints."It is entitled to, and I hope will receive a warm welcome from the profession."PROF. T. A. ATCHINSON,Of Medical Dep't Univ. Nashville and Vanderbilt."I have carefully examined the "Pocket Therapeutics and Dose Book," and do not hesitate to say that, in my opinion, it exceeds in merit any book of the kind heretofore published. I hope and believe that 'ere long it will be in possession of every practitioner and student of medicine in the land."PROF. E. L. SHURLY,Of Detroit Medical College."It should be in the hands of every medical man and pharmacist."I will cheerfully recommend it to my classes."PROF. J. W. COMPTON,Of Medical College of Evansville."I have looked it through quite carefully, and am much pleased with it."I regard it as one of the most accurate, convenient and best arranged books of the kind, and hope it will have success it deserves."PROF G. E. FROTHINGHAM,Of Medical Department of Michigan University."It contains a vast amount of information, well classified, and is a wonder of condensations.It meets a very general want, (so far as I am informed, not se well met in any other way.) I shall advise all my students to procure it, and keep it on the office table or carry in the pocket."PROF. HENRY M. FIELD,Of Dartmouth Medical College."If the reader keeps in view, like the author, 'the fact that it is simply to serve as a reminder,' I think it likely to be a useful companion"PROF. ROBERT T. EDES,Of Harvard Medical School"I have carefully examined the 'Pocket Therapeutics and Dose Book," and find it correct, concise, and convenient."PROF. H. V. SWERINGEN,Of Fort Wayne Medical College."I must say that I am well pleased with it; it contains a very condensed form a vast amount of information, highly useful to the Pharmacist as well as the Practitioner of Medicine."PROF. E. S. WAYNE,Of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy."I have carefully examined it, and find it an exceedingly useful companion."PROF J. FARIS MOORE,Of Maryland College of PharmacyAnd many other letters of endorsement from Teachers and active Practitioners, too numerous for publication.Extracts from the Leading Medical Journals of the Country,Thirty-five of which have commended it most highly, as the following short extracts from the same will show: 1. "As a reminder for students approaching their examinations of the most complete of the vest pocket series of books." 2. "We do not remember having seen a more complete pocket reference book than the one before us." 3. "This is one of the fullest little 'Pocket' books we have ever seen." 4. "It fills a gap in medical literature." 5. "This is really the best of its kind that we have ever met." 6. "Surpasses anything we have yet seen of a similar character" 7. "It admirably fills its purpose." 8. "Wonderfully compact." 9. "From cover to cover full of condensed and valuable information, just such information as one requires constantly and often at a moment's notice." 10. "Most useful little book for every physician to carry with him in his pocket to serve in cases of emergency." 11. "A valuable little book for young practitioners." 12. "To the student and young practitioner this work will be of great service." 13. "Every physician will thank us for advising him to buy this little book." 14. "It is a most complete little work on Therapeutics." 15. "Will refresh the memory and prove a friend in need." 16. "For a small book it contains more useful knowledge for the student or young practitioner (or old one either) than any work with which we are acquainted." 17. "Its Posological Table is a feature of special importance." 18. "A great improvement on the average dose book." 19. "A perpetual reminder of ten thousand distinct things, hard for any one to keep in mind and impossible to the student." 20. "We commend it to the favorable consideration of medical men." Etc., etc., etc.,SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTUseful Hints to the prescriber; Table of Doses graded by age of patient; Table of Apothecaries' Weights; Measures by Capacity; Table of Metric Weights; Troy Weights with their Equivalents in Metric Weights; Capacity by Spoonful, etc; Relations of Metric Measures to those of the U. S. P.; Number of Drops of the various Fluids to the Fluid Drachm; List of symbols and Roman Numerals, also Abbreviations used in Prescription Writing; Modes of Medicinal Introduction; Classification and Explanation of the Actions of Medicines, giving, in as short a space as possible, and in a very available form, very clear information on this subject; recalling to the reader former study and reading of more voluminous works. Grammatical Construction of a Prescription and Rules for same; Posological and Therapeutical Tables, giving Minimum and Maximum Doses in both Old and Metric Weights, Genitive Endings of Medicines in Italics, with actions and Uses. These tables contain, in addition to all the medicines and preparations in The United States Pharmacopoeia, over eleven hundred more, of the more recent and important remedial agents introduced to notice. The doses of all original and crude drugs are given, thus being of great service to the country practitioner in preparing Infusions and Decoctions from the products of the fields and forests of his vicinity. Formulas and Doses for Spray and Vapor Inhalations, Hypodermic Injections, Nasal Douches and Eye Washes; Tables of Solubility; Tables of Incompatibles and Antagonists; Rules of Chemical Incompatibility; Table of Causes of Diseases; Table of Eruptive Fevers; Index of Diseases, the Common and Technical Name, Definitions with Appropriate Remedies, containing the latest suggestions in Therapeutics, also management of "Emergencies," as Placenta-Previa, Asphyxia of the Infant after labor, post Partum Hemorrhage, etc. "SIGNS OF PREGNANCY," "MASHALL HALL'S READY METHOD OF ASPHYXIA," "GENERAL TREATMENT OF POISONING," "TABLE OF POISONS, SYMPTOMS, ANTIDOTES, AND TREATMENT" which wiil render timely suggestions in diagnosing and treating; and by its opportune hints, carry the young practitioner through perplexing dilemmas.GEO. D. STEWART & CO., Publishers,96 Congress St. East, DETROIT, MICH.FOR SALE BYJ. H. VAIL & CO.,27 Great Jones Street,NEW YORK CITY.

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